Providing leadership to accelerate business investment in the Great Lakes region using evidence-based strategies 

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A Data-Driven Strategy

The Great Lakes EDC provides you, our regional stakeholders, with complimentary data analytics and the ability to customize the data views you need and export data visualizations to strengthen your reports, grant applications, and more. 

Great Lakes EDC also has negotiated free and discounted rates for its member EDOs to subscribe to StateBook.com or license StateBook data analytics and visualizations to embed on their own websites. See pricing options below specifically for Great Lakes EDC members.

Great Lakes EDC Member Benefits

Great Lakes EDC has negotiated the following discounts on StateBook products for its members: 

FREE  Overview analytics on your website

20%  Discount on one-year license

25%  Discount on two-year license

30%  Discount on three-year license

Use the drop-downs below to explore an analytics overview of the Great Lakes EDC region powered by StateBook. 

Free Overview Data

StateBook offers Overview, a free, introductory collection of 14 essential demographic data points for your region. Data is already visualized for you in StateBook’s award-winning GIS mapping and interactive, exportable tables, charts, and graphs.

 

Free! 

Starter Pack

StateBook’s Starter Pack includes your region’s industries,  occupations, and bachelor’s degrees granted, as well as educational attainment data, higher education institutions, and a more detailed demographic profile, including age, race, and ethnicity. 

 

Starts at $400/mo.

Data Pro

Access more than 50 billion StateBook data points or any combination of data collections for the geographies of your choice!

Already visualized and always-updated, StateBook’s Data Pro is perfect for professionals.

Starts at $625/mo.

Your License Includes…

  • Data and Visualizations On Your Website. Enhance your website with award-winning data analytics, complete with GIS mapping and interactive tables, charts, and graphs. 
  • Initial Analytics Training. Learn how to save hours of research time and use analytics to make the case for your community. 
  • Best Practices Webinar. Easily create impressive, data-driven reports and grant applications with data visualizations. 
  • Ongoing Tech Support. The StateBook team is available to advise throughout the term of your license. 

StateBook for EDO’s
Since more than 90% of site selection decisions are made online, before an EDO is ever contacted, StateBook provides a powerful tool to state your case – even before you know your region is being considered for investment.

Want More Data? 

StateBook offers more than 50 billion data points, making economic development decision-making easier with the push of a button.

For the first time, comprehensive data is available for every region of the U.S., simplified and visualized and ready to share with your stakeholders. 

With a variety of product offerings, StateBook data is priced to be accessible for every region and budget.

Explore the full complement of StateBook data

Analytics & Insights

StateBook arms local communities with evidence-based solutions never before available. We simplify access to information by using sophisticated data and technology to deliver visualized analytics and insights that empower local communities to develop evidence-based strategies and solutions to secure a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable future for all.  

StateBook’s comprehensive data analytics provides a deep, integrated understanding of your residents, businesses, and infrastructure.

  • Industry assessments become a breeze. With a few clicks, analyze and export data visualizations for your Top 10 Industries by employment, number of establishments, and payroll.
  • Workforce development is more holistic with the ability to easily assess your education, occupations, and wage rates and benchmark your community against state and national data.
  • Social analytics enable you to easily examine the exacerbating effects of climate risk, poverty, racial disparities, and affordable housing on a community’s ability to advance economic growth.
  • Resilience insights enable you to assess economic and natural disaster risks to develop holistic strategies to build economic resilience, better ensuring business continuity in the face of potential disasters.

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